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unusual facts about dandy


Jack-A-Dandy

In one of the Supreme earlier stories, he teams up with Darius Dax to switch Supreme and Professor Night's minds, but the duo manage to reverse the effect and switch the minds of the two villains.


Andrew Parks

He is a key member of Larry Blamire's stock company, playing clueless alien Kro-Bar in The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and its sequel The Lost Skeleton Returns Again, gullible scientist Dr. Philip Latham in Trail of the Screaming Forehead and monocled English dandy Lord Partfine in Dark and Stormy Night.

Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington

Thomas Raikes ("the Younger") (3 October 1777 – 3 July 1848) a British merchant banker, dandy and diarist was a close childhood friend, traveling and gambling companion of Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington.

Barrie Appleby

However, following the Dandy's revamp in October 2004, he relinquished Cuddle Dimples to Nigel Parkinson.

Beat the World Records

In 2008 The Dandy Warhols released ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols..., the first official release on Beat The World.

Bee Movie Game

The Dandy: Collectors CD-ROM Bee Movie, is a PC CD-ROM game developed in 2007 by Expansive Media for a giveaway in an issue of the UK comic The Dandy.

Billy Whizz

At the end of that month a new permanent artist was appointed, namely Nick Brennan who had previously drawn Crazy for Daisy in The Beano, and Blinky in The Dandy.

By Royal Command

As he was more sympathetic towards Hitler, and the fact that Dandy and Roan would have claimed to be working for the Communists, the United Kingdom would have formed an alliance with Germany, isolating the French and giving Germany an ally in the ensuing war against Communist Russia.

Cheo Marquetti

He is also said to have been a member of Septeto Cuba, Alabama de Abelardo Barroso, Jóvenes del Cayo, Dandy del 40, La Sonora Piñón and Septeto Mora.

Comus

A selfish dandy, Comus Bassington is the central character in the novel The Unbearable Bassington by Saki (H.H. Munro).

Count d'Orsay

Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D'Orsay (1801–1852) was a French amateur artist, dandy, and man of fashion

Crataegus laevigata

and in 1946 Dandy showed that Linnaeus had actually observed a different plant, and this would be C. oxyacantha.

Dandy horse

George Arliss, as the title character of the 1929 film Disraeli, rides a dandy-horse through a London park until he collides with a woman pedestrian.

Denise Black

Black appeared in 1991 on TV as Carrie Evans in Shoscombe Old Place, episode 60 of ITV's and WGBH, Boston's The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes and on stage as Goneril in Shakespeare's King Lear, toured in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night with the Cambridge Touring Company - and gave birth to a daughter, Dandy.

Elvis and Andy

The song is an up-tempo in which the male narrator states that, while his lover is not from the Southern United States, she "likes Elvis and Andy / So she's fine and dandy with me." Presumably this refers to Elvis Presley and Andy Griffith/Taylor.

Floris of London

Beau Brummell, the dandy of his day in the early 19th century, would discuss his current fragrances at length with Mr Floris.

Go Home Productions

The album also included two tracks by Loo & Placido, most notably the chart hit "Horny as a Dandy", featuring The Dandy Warhols and Mousse T.

Grandpa in My Pocket

A similar idea was used in The Dandy comic in the 1970s comic adventure strip Peter's Pocket Grandpa, which was based on an earlier prose text story called Jimmie's Pocket Grandpa which had appeared in The Dandy in the 1940s.

Horace series

: "Hungry Horace" is also the name of an unrelated character from the UK's Dandy, Sparky and Topper comics.

James Edgar Dandy

James Edgar Dandy (Preston, Lancashire, 24 September 1903 - Tring, 10 November 1976) was a British botanist, Keeper of Botany at the British Museum (Natural History) between 1956 and 1966.

Joe Jitsu

The strip, drawn by Wayne Thompson, who was also the artist for The Beanos Billy Whizz and Jak in The Dandy, was about a boy who had a black belt in Karate.

John Garrick

John Garrick (Reginald Dandy; 31 August 1902 in Brighton, England – 22 October 1966 in San Francisco) was a British film actor.

José Guadalupe Posada

Posada's best known works are his calaveras, which often assume various costumes, such as the Calavera de la Catrina, the "Skull of the Female Dandy", which was meant to satirize the life of the upper classes during the reign of Porfirio Díaz.

Keyhole Kate

The revived strip was drawn by Tom Paterson and Trevor Metcalfe in the Dandy, until it was finally dropped in 2007.

Naftaly Frenkel

Some remembered him as a dandy who had a good head for figures and, according to Maxim Gorky (who visited and approved Solovetsky Islands in June 1929) and others, a perfect memory.

Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth

As documented in the film Dig!, the song is dedicated to the band The Brian Jonestown Massacre, friends/rivals of The Dandy Warhols at the time, who in turn dedicated their own track "Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth" to them; although frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor revealed in an interview that the song is also about his girlfriend at the time who, according to him, had become a heroin addict.

Pierre Gaspard Marie Grimod d'Orsay

(Albert was later called "the beau d'Orsay", and was in turn father of the dandy Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count d'Orsay.) Marie Louise died giving birth to him, and Pierre (a patron of the arts like his father) began travelling Europe for consolation, gathering famous collections of paintings and sculptures.

Richard Nash

Beau Nash (1674–1762), born Richard Nash, English dandy

Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society

The first animal registered in the Herd Book was a bull named 'Dandy', owned by Mr James Godfray of St. Martin, and the first cow registered was named 'Daisy', belonging to Mr. P. Paisnel of St. Clement.

Rustle the Leaf

Also in the cast were 6 other characters: "Dandy" (a persecuted, paranoid Dandelion seed), "Fuego" (a firefly), "Paige" (a water drop), "Dizzy" (a helicoptering Silver Maple seed), "Professor Oakmont" (a sagacious Oak tree), and "Amelia" (an adventurous dragonfly).

Saratoga Race Course

Saratoga Race Course has several nicknames: The Spa (for the nearby mineral springs), the House of Upsets, and the Graveyard of Champions. Famous race horse Man o' War suffered his only defeat in twenty-one starts while racing at Saratoga Race Course; Secretariat was defeated at Saratoga Race Course by Onion, after winning the Triple Crown; and Gallant Fox had been beaten by the 100-1 longshot Jim Dandy in the 1930 Travers Stakes.

Some Dudes Can Fight

A ruffian from the Bowery sees a dandy young man approaching him and decides to taunt the well-dressed fellow.

Steve Currie

He appeared on all of Marc Bolan's most memorable hit singles from "Ride a White Swan" (1970) to "Laser Love" (1976), as well as the albums Electric Warrior (1971) to Dandy in the Underworld (1977).

Strange Hill

The Dandy version was a very "safe" version of Hammer Horror clichés, similar to Number 13 in The Beano or the US TV series The Munsters.

The Angry Mob

The single came with special artwork created by Dandy/Beano artist Nigel Parkinson, and features caricatures of the band with various Beano characters.

The Beano

Since the 75th Anniversary Special revamp, The Beano has now gained Andy Fanton, Stephen Waller, Dean Rankine, Garry Davies and Rick Eades all from The Dandy and the only original Beano artists that remain in the comic are David Sutherland, Laura Howell and Nigel Parkinson since Barrie Appleby, Barry Glennard, Hunt Emerson and Dave Eastbury all appear to have gone.

The Black Album/Come On Feel the Dandy Warhols

The Black Album/Come On Feel The Dandy Warhols is a 2004 double album released by American alternative band, The Dandy Warhols.

The Out Crowd

The Out Crowd was featured briefly on the DVD extras of the movie Dig! about The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre

The Out Crowd supported fellow neo-psychedelic bands Dead Meadow and The Warlocks nationally in 2004 as well as The Dandy Warhols on their 2005 North American tour.

Thomas Fitch

Thomas Fitch, V (1725–1795), representative from Norwalk to the Connecticut House of Representatives, traditionally believed to be the original "Yankee Doodle Dandy."

Thomas Raikes

Their eldest son Thomas became a noted London diarist; another son, Henry, became a churchman, eventually Chancellor of the Diocese of Chester.

William Thomas Moncrieff

Moncrieff's first success was at Astley’s circus with The Dandy Family an equestrian drama, and in 1820 The Lear of Private Life, with Junius Brutus Booth as hero, enjoyed a long run.

Winker

Winker Watson, a fictional character who has his own comic strip in the UK comic The Dandy


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